Re: from Gail and Don re: Thanksgiving menu (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

No potatoes.  Should I even bother with gravy?

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 08:03:46 -0800 (PST)
 >
 >  > From: "Gail" <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 >  > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:32:47 -0800
 >  > 
 >  > Hi Noelle and Robert,
 >  > 
 >  > We now finally have decided on our Thanksgiving menu (which Don
 >  > has already bought about half the ingredients), so we hope this
 >  > will be things you like (especially Noelle as they are not vegan
 >  > recipes although there are many fruits and vegetables that Robert
 >  > can eat before I add butter or other things he can't eat). Since
 >  > there are no small turkeys in the grocery stores for just 3 of us
 >  > with some leftovers, I had to go with a whole 5 lb. chicken
 >  > instead.
 >  > 
 >  > Thanksgiving Thurs. dinner main course: "Garlic Roasted Chicken
 >  > and Root Vegetables". Ingredients in this are: fresh rosemary,
 >  > fresh thyme, lemon, butter, garlic, salt & pepper, olive oil, baby
 >  > red potatoes, carrots, parsnips, shallots, chicken broth with
 >  > flour and white wine to make the gravy.
 >  > 
 >  > "Rustic Herb Stuffing" made separately in a baking
 >  > dish. Ingredients are: French bread cubes, butter, mushrooms,
 >  > leeks, scallions, celery, Italian parsley, fresh oregano, sage,
 >  > thyme, garlic, salt & pepper, eggs, chicken broth, grated Parmesan
 >  > cheese.
 >  > 
 >  > For an additional green vegetable, we will have either steamed
 >  > broccoli or green beans.
 >  > 
 >  > Dessert: "Apple Pie with Granola Topping" from my New American
 >  > Plate cookbook that has very healthy recipes. The ingredients for
 >  > the single bottom pie crust are: whole wheat flour, all purpose
 >  > white flour, a little powdered sugar, salt, butter, canola oil,
 >  > ice water. Ingredients for the filling are: 6 large tart apples,
 >  > sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves, pinch of
 >  > salt. Ingredients for the topping are: all-purpose flour, whole
 >  > wheat flour, quick-cooking rolled oats, sugar, cinnamon,
 >  > pinch of salt, butter, canola oil. I will have yogurt vanilla ice
 >  > cream available to put on the pie if anyone wants it.
 >  > 
 >  > Breakfasts: I will have made a "Carrot Banana Bread" with
 >  > ingredients of: canola oil, sugar, eggs, flour, baking soda, salt,
 >  > cinnamon, 1 cup mashed ripe banana, 1 cup carrots, pecans. I will
 >  > have spreadable cream cheese to spread on your slices if you want
 >  > that. We also have eggs available, cereals including shredded
 >  > wheat, granolas, etc., Thomas Light Multi-Grain English Muffins,
 >  > pork fully cooked breakfast sausages, mandarine oranges, Greek
 >  > yogurt, and strawberries.
 >  > 
 >  > For lunches we have sandwich makings with: cracked wheat sourdough
 >  > bread, Nuts & Grain bread, mayonnaise and mustards, lettuce,
 >  > tomatoes, avocado, swiss and cheddar cheese, non-nitrate/nitrite
 >  > salami and pastrami, and sliced chicken along with Opadipity Greek
 >  > yogurt dip for vegetable sticks of celery and orange bell pepper
 >  > or fruit yogurts Don likes.
 >  > 
 >  > For additional snacks such as mid-afternoon: we have natural
 >  > chunky peanut butter and Reduced Fat Triscuits, dark chocolate
 >  > with almonds bars with no added sugar, and some organic stone
 >  > ground blue corn tortilla chips with quinoa and chia seeds
 >  > left. There is also some gorgonzola and mozzarella cheeses to be
 >  > used up.
 >  > 
 >  > With all of this our refrigerator will most likely be full, but
 >  > you are welcome to bring any other food you would like to have
 >  > perhaps in a cooler.  If there are any other foods you want us to
 >  > buy for you, please let us know by email or phone tomorrow. Of
 >  > course on Fri. we all can go out and buy any other foods we might
 >  > need over the weekend as well as going out to restaurants
 >  > occasionally. We now have many more vegan restaurants we can try
 >  > out with you including in Montecito.
 >  > 
 >  > I suggest that you at least start out sleeping in our queen size
 >  > hideabed with its fairly new mattress. If you later find it
 >  > uncomfortable and/or Noelle needs more quiet space to do her
 >  > laptop computer work or I need to continue to catch up on reading
 >  > all my email that came in over the last 2 weeks, etc. that is in
 >  > your guest room, you may decide after Thurs. to sleep at a nearby
 >  > hotel or motel on Calle Real. We will do our best to have our
 >  > Morocco photos edited and perhaps annotated and ready to show you
 >  > either on my computer or possibly Don will be able to put them on
 >  > a disk to show on our TV. Be thinking what all else you would like
 >  > to do this weekend while you are here. Having been gone for 2+
 >  > weeks, we are a little out of touch regarding what all is going on
 >  > then, but we will have the current Independent for us all to read
 >  > to see what is available. You also may want to visit occasionally
 >  > with some of your friends while here.
 >  > 
 >  > We look forward to seeing you soon and hope you have an easy drive
 >  > with not too much traffic.
 >  > 
 >  > Love,
 >  > 
 >  > Gail
 >  > http://www.cox.net/~g3